The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c4.s8.93
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c4.s8.93
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79. Judging from their products, in a certain sense, this may apply even more to the writings on India by most non-Indians. Their writings on various aspects of Indian society and polity will obviously be influenced, if not wholly conditioned, by their respective cultural and educational ethos. Even when some of them—Alexander Walker in the early 19th century and Prof. Burton Stein today—appear to understand India better, it is not really for them to map out how Indians should end up perceiving themselves or their own society. Such a task can legitimately only be undertaken by India itself.